Duty and Service

 

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

 

Duty and Service

 

The spirit of true service, however, never dawns in the heart without self abnegation and non-attachment. If we would do for others, we must be willing to forget our own little self, our physical comforts, our individual happiness. Only as all our action are based on the principle of working not for results, but through love, do we learn to help others truly . a worthy  lover  of making is like a flower, which gives its fragrance whether we place it on our head or trample it under our feet . His nature is to give without any regard for his won personal gain our loss.

 

The story is told of a holy man in India who, going one day to a well to drink found a scorpion struggling in the water. The sight touched his loving heart and lifting the poor creature from the well, he pressed it against his breast to warm and revive it. But no sooner had the scorpion regained its strength then it stung him. The saint placed it gently on the ground and in a moment it feels back into the well. Forgetting that it had done him any injury, again he rescued it and held it against his heart, but the scorpion stung him as before. Still a third time he drew it from the water and gave it the same loving care, wholly unmindful of the harm done to him. He had reached the ideal preached by Buddha and Christ of loving even his enemies for all self –love had merged into the great love which embraces every living creature .

 

Performing effortless action is true yog

 

By KV Raghupathi

 

The word ‘yog’ is understood in several ways. One meaning predominantly attributed to it is ‘action’. Yog is an action. It is described in the Bhagwad Gita as ‘Karmeshu kausalam yog’. Action is simply understood as our emotional, neurological and mental response to a situation. It happens either with volition or with no volition. When it happens with volition, it is thoughtful action; if it happens without volition, it is called choiceless action. However, thought precedes action. Thought is crucial to performing actions. When the same action is constantly repeated, a habit is formed. Habits thus formed by constantly repeated actions describe our character.

 

Without getting into the complexity of action, let us first understand how action is performed. Action is done in two ways: one is with effort and the other without effort. Effortless action is true yog.

 

 

How is it achieved? We all perform actions with effort. This is the beginning of action; action is done with ‘me’ consciousness. Action thus performed, with ‘me’ consciousness, is not yog because it involves effort. Yog emphasises swift action without giving much credence to I-thought.

 

When we want to excel in one skill, we need to put in a lot of effort in the beginning. In time, it becomes effortless. This is called efficiency. Take teaching as an example. Teaching a particular subject requires effort in the beginning, such as preparing notes, rehearsing before stepping into a classroom, self-evaluating, and so on. As we teach the same subject, assisted by our constant learning that enhances our knowledge, we gain efficiency in time. We need not take lecture notes to the classroom, we need not prepare seriously. We might as well walk into the classroom empty-handed and deliver the goods. Or we may take along lecture notes but not look at them now and then while teaching as we did in the beginning. This way efficiency is achieved. Effortless action is nothing but achieving efficiency. When we gain this efficiency in whatever we do, we are in a state of yog. Our bodies and minds get totally involved in whatever we do with no effort. That is, we do not feel tired or become a spent force.

 

The whole creation is moving in this direction – effortless action. The only difficulty is that we are not aware of it.

 

Effortless action also means responding to a situation spontaneously, without thinking too much about it. Otherwise, it would bind us to karma, which is inescapable. Instead, we wait for the situation to unfold before us and when it does, we act like a cat on the wall that lies in wait for a rat to come out of its hole. Once the rat appears and is close enough, the cat jumps and catches it. This is true action. There is no effort involved.

 

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment Arsenal no 7 scored a goal,   Sa won by 7 wk, Bangaldesh won first odi scoreing 314/7 , Indian women made 277/7, 7 colour rainbow found in London on holi,       

The path of spirit, the way of peace and Blessedness.

 

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

 

The path of spirit, the way of peace and Blessedness.

 

The path of the spirit is so simple that a child can walk in it; but grown up people who have complicated minds, for them the path is as sharp as the blade of razor. The simple minded are ever protected by the Divine Mother and She creates such an atmosphere about them that nothing can touch them. Everyone can acquire this atmosphere. Whatever you really want, you can gain. The power is within you. But you can not do it if you take the egotistic point of vice. If, however, you surrender to Divine Mother and pray to Her with whole-hearted devotion, then nothing can prevent you from moving onward. You are sure to attain.

            What you want is the living quality in the spiritual life. You must be spiritually living before you can enjoy life. You must know what life is. You must have a full consciousness of its meaning and purpose, so that even when things go wrong you will be able to stand up and face the difficulty like a true child of God. You must go round and round your being. You must penetrate into every corner with the light of wisdom, so that nothing is hidden from you. You must arise, awake and shake off all lethargy.

Then when you begin to live, every thing will begin to live for you. As long as you are spiritually dead, as long as your heart is deadened by thinking constantly of matter, everything must seem dead to you. But as soon as you are living, living things will come to you. Whenever the soul is ready the seed comes; so when your heart is properly prepared and ready to receive the living seed, the life giving force then it will surely come. You cannot expect someone else to give you a beautiful vision of blessedness. He might do it but you could not keep it. You must prepare the field by earnestness, humility, child-like simplicity and faith.

 

What Einstein can teach theists and atheists

 

By Sumit Paul

 

Was Albert Einstein an atheist or a believer? Neither. The theoretical physicist never called himself an atheist, something the likes of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett will have you believe. Einstein was an agnostic, a sanshyatma, sceptic, in the true sense of oriental philosophical traditions. He believed that God could never be understood through a rigmarole of religious and ritualistic mumbo-jumbo. His nirakar, formless, God was a transcendental consciousness.

 

Finding God

 

Einstein found God in the perfect symmetry of the cosmos. His cosmic religion and distant deistic God of cosmic order and elegance fit neither the agenda of religious believers nor that of tribal atheists. His highly evolved scientific brain never anthropomorphised God the way general people do.

 

 

He never attended religious services or prayed. He could not conceive of a God who punished and rewarded people, partly because he was a thoroughgoing determinist. Einstein repeatedly distanced himself from the idea of a personal God. He refused a traditional Jewish burial. All in all, not very religious. But he was a spiritual man and a moralist who abhorred wars to the point of being an irenic, a pacifist.

 

Religion an impediment

 

The spiritual facet of Einstein’s persona underlines that one doesn’t have to tie oneself to the apron-strings of any organised religion whatsoever. His whole life was a living manifestation of the exalted spiritual concept of Sufis, called Shavanaaii, ‘belief sans religion’ in Persian. “The soi-disant God is independent of all religions. In sooth, religion is an impediment to reaching and realising God,” he wrote to his friend and fellow Nobel laureate Niels Bohr.

 

Einstein hated extremism both in belief and unbelief and tellingly wrote in 1940, “There are fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics.” The atheists may lap up the words in a letter written to Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind, “The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible, a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

 

But the same ‘atheist’ Einstein could euphorically say in public that Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms’ ethereal creations were ‘God’s symphonies’.

 

Ultimate compass

 

Einstein’s God was the epitome of the highest moralistic virtue and value. His God was a metaphor for immaculate existence and a spotless spirit of Elysian blissfulness. In other words, Einstein saw God as the ultimate compass of universal rectitude and perfection. He could strike an admirable balance between theism and atheism. That’s why, his amorphous spiritual fluidity is happily atheistic to non-believers and satisfactorily theistic to believers.

 

To sum it up, like his famous Theory of Relativity, Einstein’s God was a relative concept and a fiercely subjective perception, which wasn’t a part of a universal belief system.

 

 Today is Albert Einstein’s birth anniversary

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment India women beat Pakistan scoring 244/7 cricket no 7 scored ton got shared motm, , wi women won by 7, aus women won by 7 , ronaldo 7 scored hatrick,       

Healing in Meditation Spiritual Healing

 

Quote from true charm and Power of Vedanta

 

Healing in Meditation  Spiritual Healing

 

That happiness which belongs to a mind which by deep meditation has been washed lean from all impurity and has entered within the Self , cannot be described by words it can be felt by inward power only- Maitrayana Brahmana Upanisahd Now what most contributes to the growth of these wings of the soul is meditation, by which we learn little by little to wean our affection from earthly tings ,and to get a habit of contemplating the things that are immaterial and intelligible  and to shake off the pollutions if has contracted by its union with the terrestrial and mortal body. And indeed by these advantages it revives in some manners it rouse up itself, it is filled with divine vigor and reunites itself to the intelligent Perfection within.

 

Whenever we are in trouble physically, or distressed mentally, we seek for help in the outside world, but very seldom we think that there is already within us the most potent and infallible remedy. Meditation opens to us such a source of remedy , it has a decided healing power over both body and mind but unfortunately the majority of people  regard it as a negative state, entirely aloof from our everyday, active life . But it is not so. It is the greatest creative force within us consciously and unconsciously we all make use of it. There are certain thoughts which have a hold upon us, we cannot get away from their influence, but whether our meditation is voluntary or involuntary, and our mind always takes the imprint of our thoughts. Whenever we are able to keep our mind connected for any length of time with something beautiful and restful we feel refreshed. A tired person coming in contact with nature becomes rested just by looking at the trees the flowers and the birds. It is not that he has actually taken anything away from Nature. Nature still stands intact, but the thought has lifted him from his tired bodily conditions and restored him.

 

Save the world from war, spread meditativeness

 

By Osho

 

Only one thing can save the world from the coming war – which will be a total war – this is going to destroy the whole of life on the earth. Trees, birds, animals, man – anything living will simply be gone.

 

There is one way only, and that is to spread to people more meditativeness, more love, more friendliness, and more rejoicing. If we can make the earth sing songs and dance in joy, in gratitude because existence has given so much – otherwise, it would have been impossible even to purchase one sunrise.

 

And a sunrise is a big thing – the whole wealth of the earth would not be able to produce a single rose. And all this is given to man without his asking. You don’t deserve it, you are not worthy of it. It is out of the compassion of existence, the overflowing joy of existence, the continuous creativity of existence that you are so rich. Millions of stars in the night.

 

 

Make people aware of their gratitude towards life, and make people love, sing, dance. If we can spread this at-ease around the world, the third world war will be prevented. We need not bother about it. Joyous people don’t want war; it is only those who are already dead who would like everybody else to be dead.

 

They are really suffering because they are dead. They cannot laugh, they cannot enjoy, they cannot love, they cannot feel. They don’t have any heart, and others have. It is making them so jealous! It will be far better that everything is finished. At least there will be no grounds for their jealousy – they will also be finished in it.

 

So I don’t say that there is any direct way to prevent the third world war. That is what the pacifists of the world say: “Protest. Have protest marches to Washington, to Moscow” – but nobody listens to those protest marches. And I have seen those pacifists shouting and screaming against the war – I could not see any difference between them and the people who are getting ready to fight.

 

The weak, the powerless, scream. The powerful takes his gun, puts his army on alert. The pacifists continually go on protesting. This helps nobody.

 

I am not a pacifist, and I don’t want my people to be pacifists. That is fighting with those who are preparing for war – but you are doing the same on a small scale. No, that won’t help. We want to create our own movement which has nothing to do with the third world war.

 

Do you see my point? If we can make humanity happier, more loving, more silent, more peaceful, we will create a real barrier against the third world war. The leaders cannot go without their people. If the people refuse, the armies refuse, if everybody refuses and says, “I am so happy, I don’t want to die. And I love humanity, so I don’t want to kill. If you can manage on your own, you do it.” A peaceful and happy man does not want to die and does not want to kill. (Abridged from ‘From Bondage to Freedom’, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment in isl Goas no 7 socred hatrick, , In epl arsenal no 7 socred a goal, , liecester no 7 socred a goal, indan w beat Pakistan socreing 244/7 (107 runs)      

Spiritualizing everyday Life

 

Quote from true charm and Power of Vedanta

 

Spiritualizing everyday Life

 

So, the detachment comes. Detachment means you are not particularly attached to someone and not attached to others. All begin to have another meaning for you. In the beginning of course, you will not be much fun, but later you become great fun. What happens? Another quality becomes revealed through you, another quality of being; it is a strange religious phenomenon. At first all your friends and relatives oppose you and try to dissuade you, they even hate you actually hate you with grate anger in their heart. Next, they become indifferent; they have given up hope for you. Finally, they begin to be drawn towards you and to be very proud of you, talking about you and saying. ‘You know. I knew him when. “Very proud of you they become, with sincere pride. If you should then give up spiritual life, they would become your bitterest critics. I used to puzzle over this until I found the answer: many things we do not possess but enjoy though others. I may to be able to sing, but if you can sing and I can hear you sing. I enjoy music thereby. So I may not have spirituality, but if you have become spiritual, I enjoy spirituality though you; and if you fail, you deprive me of something most precious, and in my disappointment I become critical of you.

 

A time comes after the period of struggle is over, when a new quality reveals itself in the smile of the mother, and the children dote on her. She talks to them in a new way and there is something in it that goes deep into their hearts. The husband feels it, too. And so do the relatives and friends. True, it is not fun in the old way, but to all it is a source of attraction, and all-find it good to be with her. You might say it is too good to be true. Well, I don’t think it is too good to be true. I think it is good and equally true. You just have to practice this and you will find that people who have a little worth in them will come like bees to a full-blown flower to sip the honey. Afterwards, in fact, this attraction becomes an obstruction for the spiritual man. A wonderful beauty of appearance and of character comes, and it is a source of such tremendous attraction that all kinds of people are drawn to him. Of course, those who are attracted are benefited; but the spiritual person himself cannot find the peace and quiet and solitude necessary for spiritual practice. So for a period he has to run away and live by himself.

 

 

Save the world from war, spread meditativeness

By Osho

 

Only one thing can save the world from the coming war – which will be a total war – this is going to destroy the whole of life on the earth. Trees, birds, animals, man – anything living will simply be gone.

 

There is one way only, and that is to spread to people more meditativeness, more love, more friendliness, and more rejoicing. If we can make the earth sing songs and dance in joy, in gratitude because existence has given so much – otherwise, it would have been impossible even to purchase one sunrise.

 

And a sunrise is a big thing – the whole wealth of the earth would not be able to produce a single rose. And all this is given to man without his asking. You don’t deserve it, you are not worthy of it. It is out of the compassion of existence, the overflowing joy of existence, the continuous creativity of existence that you are so rich. Millions of stars in the night.

 

 

Make people aware of their gratitude towards life, and make people love, sing, dance. If we can spread this at-ease around the world, the third world war will be prevented. We need not bother about it. Joyous people don’t want war; it is only those who are already dead who would like everybody else to be dead.

 

They are really suffering because they are dead. They cannot laugh, they cannot enjoy, they cannot love, they cannot feel. They don’t have any heart, and others have. It is making them so jealous! It will be far better that everything is finished. At least there will be no grounds for their jealousy – they will also be finished in it.

 

So I don’t say that there is any direct way to prevent the third world war. That is what the pacifists of the world say: “Protest. Have protest marches to Washington, to Moscow” – but nobody listens to those protest marches. And I have seen those pacifists shouting and screaming against the war – I could not see any difference between them and the people who are getting ready to fight.

 

The weak, the powerless, scream. The powerful takes his gun, puts his army on alert. The pacifists continually go on protesting. This helps nobody.

 

I am not a pacifist, and I don’t want my people to be pacifists. That is fighting with those who are preparing for war – but you are doing the same on a small scale. No, that won’t help. We want to create our own movement which has nothing to do with the third world war.

 

Do you see my point? If we can make humanity happier, more loving, more silent, more peaceful, we will create a real barrier against the third world war. The leaders cannot go without their people. If the people refuse, the armies refuse, if everybody refuses and says, “I am so happy, I don’t want to die. And I love humanity, so I don’t want to kill. If you can manage on your own, you do it.” A peaceful and happy man does not want to die and does not want to kill. (Abridged from ‘From Bondage to Freedom’, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment India won second t20 by 7 wk, sl no 7 got mvp on third match, in epl tot son no 7 scored a goal,      

Spiritual Healing

 

Quote from true charm and Power of Vedanta

 

Spiritual Healing

 

Whenever we are tried or disturbed, instead of allowing our mind to be full of agitation, if we withdraw it entirely from the source of disturbance, we shall not only have a sense of refreshment, but by disconnecting ourselves in this way from our trouble we shall giant a more correct view of it and be able to find the remedy for it. This is a general principle and not merely to be applied to physical ailments. These ailments are after all not as important as we think. Let us take this question up very frankly. Here in the Occident, especially since the rise of certain modern movements. Healing has played tremendous part. There are some people who hold that unless a person has good health he does not amount to anything; that illness is great curse. In India there is quite another attitude. Thee, when a person has a little fever or headache or some other physical ailment, it is not held that he has fallen from grace or that a curse has fallen upon him. On the contrary, it is felt that to be able to meet these conditions with absolute equilibrium, without being afflicted, is a great achievement. If we are able to keep our balance in all circumstances, no matter what comes, affliction will not appear to be affliction, because we shall have a consciousness and a power by which we can cope with everything. Is not that much better than merely trying to follow the path of affirmation? To deny pain when you feel it is a very good practice; but to keep on denying it, if it continues, is to be slightly lacking in a sense of true value.

 

What you’re longing for is also longing for you

 

By Sumit Paul

 

While reading Persian mystic Jalaluddin Rumi, I stumbled upon a soul-gladdening thought that made me pause and go into a state of trance: ‘Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’ve been with each other all along.’ What a heart-warming thought. Reading these lines brought to mind Hafiz Shirazi’s immortal verse: ‘Love is perennial. It chooses the lovers, not the other way round.’

 

True love is divine in nature – Ishq-e-Haqeeqi. Walt Whitman wrote in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, “We existed forever for each other/ Waiting for that moment to be divinely aware.” This is the turning point in love: To be aware of that precise moment when both understand that they have loved each other through ages and births, as a young Muhammad Iqbal put it: ‘Dil dhadakta tab bhi tha/ Par aaj ye ayaan hua/ Hum mein hain aap/ Aur aap mein hum/ Iss baat ka irfaan hua’ – Heart throbbed then as well/ But today I’ve realised that you’re in me and I’m in you/ This is the greatest realisation.

 

‘Tishnagi gar aab zoyad az jahaan/ Ab hum zoyad ba-aalam tishnagaan’ – It’s not only the thirst that longs for water/ Water also craves the thirsty man. This Persian couplet by Rumi resonates with all of us. We all search for the ultimate with a blinkered vision, not knowing that what we have been looking for is not separate from us. Our search for truth begins and ends at our very doorstep.

 Remember, what you’re longing for is also longing for you. To quote Asadullah Khan Ghalib, ‘Hum hain mushtaaq aur woh bezaar/ Ilahi ye maajra kya hai?’ – I’m agog, and my beloved is also restless/ God, what’s going on?

 

Metaphysically, all things come out of our inner self, the recesses of the soul. We remain unaware of it and try to find that in the clamour and clutter of the outer world. We’re just like the musk-deer that keeps running after musk, which it contains in its navel. As Krishnabihari ‘Noor’ put it: ‘Main daudta phira jiski khatir/ Woh toh pahle se tha dil mein haazir’ – What I hankered after/ That existed already in my heart.

 

Adi Shankara’s mystic interpretation of Advait or non-dualism deserves a mention here: That all are essentially divine. Divinity resides in all of us as an inalienable entity. God, or whatever you may call it, is not separate from the jiva. Further explanation leads to the Upanishads’ lofty proclamation, Aham Brahmasami – I’m Brahmn; and Tat tvam asi – Thou art That. Islamic tasawwuf, spirituality, also proclaims the same thing: An-Al-Haq, You’re the Supreme, the ultimate Truth.

 

Human beings are unrealised souls. They’re like fallen angels, as Iqbal put it: ‘Raah bhatka farishta hoon main/ Jannat hai mera ashiyaana’ – I’m an angel who has lost his way/ Otherwise, paradise is my abode. We’re unaware of our own divinity and the innate potential. That we carry an ocean of possibilities and a plethora of opportunities is still elusive to us. Kabir rightly said, ‘Tu moko dhoondhe kidhar/ Main toh hoon tere andar’ – Where do you look for me?/ I’m forever within you. If only we understood this simple key to a blissful life!

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment in isl Mohanbagan no 7 scored a goal, Arsenal no 7 scored a goal   

Peace and Blessedness. The Path to the Spirit

 

Quote from true charm and Power of Vedanta

 

Peace and Blessedness. The Path to the Spirit

 

The Bhagavad-Gita says; “The well-resolved mind is single and one pointed”, So it is with a seeker of Truth. He thinks of nothing else. He moves in that, he lives to that, his whole being is based on that, and he becomes that. You may ask; what happens to his ordinary life? Does a wise man eat, sleep work? Yes; he eats, sleeps and performs all his functions but he knows that his soul is immortal and he lives with that consciousness. An ordinary mortal recognizes diseases, bondage, suffering; but one who has soul-consciousness, he does not recognize these; he recognizes God. He lives like other man; but he is free, while the other is bound. You may put him in a dark dungeon; there he finds an effulgent light within himself. You cannot rob him of his light. You do not need to help him; he finds all his help in the Supreme. You say the most condemning tings; they do not touch him,

Who is the stronger? The one who is not touched. He lives in an atmosphere which no one can break through. He lives on an island so isolated, no one can reach him. He dwells in a state which can never be disturbed. His inner consciousness is peace and that inner bliss he possesses is his own. You may have a beautiful room, decorate it with flowers and do everything to have space there; but it is not so safe as when you have peace and bliss within yourself. You may have to leave that special place; but the inner shrine you can carry with you wherever you go. That sanctuary which you create within yourself by your thoughts, words and actions, nothing can take away.

 

Pure love is emptying the mind of all fear

 

By Anup Taneja

 

Over the last two years, the world has been passing through a critical phase owing to the Covid-19 pandemic that has not spared even the most affluent nations. The main reason for the untold misery being inflicted on the inhabitants of earth, according to Albert Einstein, is the failure of humanity to use and harness the various forces of the universe in the right direction.

 

It was through a flash of intuition that Einstein realised that there was an extremely powerful force that governed every phenomenon operating in the universe about which science could not find any formal explanation. This universal force, he said, is love. The positive energy of love, he believed, is so very powerful that it has the capacity to heal the entire world.

 

While making efforts to develop a unified theory of the universe, explains Einstein, scientists completely overlooked the presence of this positive energy. Love is light that enlightens those who give and receive it; love is gravity because it works like a magnet, attracting people towards one another; love is power, because it extinguishes blind selfishness and ensures that humanity is not governed by a parochial attitude.  Indeed, it is for love we live and for love we die – love is God and God is love.

 

 

Paramhansa Yogananda, an ardent votary of the lofty ideal of Divine Love, writes   that love is the divine power of attraction in creation that harmonises, unites and binds together. It is opposed by the force of repulsion, which is the outgoing cosmic energy that materialises creation from the cosmic consciousness of God. Repulsion keeps all forms in the manifested state through ‘maya’, the power of delusion that divides, differentiates and disharmonises. The attractive force of love counteracts cosmic repulsion to harmonise all creation and ultimately draw it back to God. Those who live in tune with the attractive force of love, achieve harmony with nature and their fellow beings, and are attracted to blissful reunion with God.

 

Mata Amritanandmayi, the very embodiment of love and compassion, says that the root cause of all problems, from personal to global, is the absence of love in the hearts of people. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor that creates the feeling of oneness among people. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of masks of all.

 

In present times where nations are spending millions of dollars in accumulating weapons and bombs of mass destruction, it is all the more important that mankind creates another type of bomb, a love-bomb, which is powerful enough to annihilate hatred, selfishness and greed that have devastated our planet. Suffering has made us realise that the transitory life on earth is too precious to be frittered away in nurturing thoughts of hatred and ill-will towards fellow humans. Einstein rightly said: “If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.”

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment in isl Mohanbagan no 7 scored a goal,    

Secret of right activity

 

Quote from true charm and Power of Vedanta

 

Secret of right activity

The religious life dose not meant devoting certain hours to the study of the Bible or some other sacred Scripture; it means continuous life in accordance with the higher law. And nowhere do we find this more strikingly illustrated than in the Hindu life. It is said that the Hindus eat religion, drink religion, and sleep religion. What is the significance of this? That they do not wish to live without God; that they do not want to be separated for one moment from that supreme consciousness. They believe that all their actions, from the least important to the loftiest must start from that one central consciousness. This is what we need to learn-those at all times we must lead exalted lives that every act must be in harmony with our higher nature, that we must serve our ideal even at the cost of our life. Such characters are need, and we can build them only by right thinking,

 

We must not shut ourselves up in one set of doctrines and dogmas and believe tht the whole spiritual Truth is confined in them According to Vedanta , Truth is the common property of the whole human race; and whoever is wakeful, whoever apples the Truth , whoever lives the life , he is a follower of the Truth, whether he comes from East or West . A flower wherever it grows and it gives the same fragrance to the one who tramples on it as to the one who cherishes it. That is the nature we should develop. We must not say; this person does not appeal to me; I cannot love or serve him. The ordinary man does that. The flower does not refuse its fragrance to anyone. It gives what it has to give. Similarly our higher nature should be so unfolded that we can feel for all and give without asking anything.

 

Moving towards a state of permanent Basant

By Anandmurti Gurumaa

 

From autumn through harsh winter, the land goes barren, leaves fall and the grass goes lifeless. Wearing the veil of darkness, everything plunges into a deep slumber. Such is the view outside, but what about the ominous gloom that dwells within us?

 

Sant Kabir says, ‘Asleep in the temple of this body, I have been awakened hearing the Master’s eternal words.’ Sleep symbolises ignorance, darkness, inertia and unconsciousness. And this very sleep is the inner autumn – the autumn of the mind. If someone is asleep, we call him out, ‘Wake up, the dawn has broken.’ So, the person gets up hearing that voice. But a person in the slumber of ignorance can only be awakened by the words of an evolved master.

 

Body as temple

 

Kabir is referring to the body as a temple, which symbolises purity. It epitomises sacredness, something that is beautiful to look at. The saint says, ‘I am sleeping in this body that is akin to a temple. Temple is where the Lord dwells. If I am asleep in the temple, how would I know who resides within me? I wake up hearing the eternal word of the Master, thus the sleep of ignorance that was going on for aeons is over.’

 Ignorance is the breeding ground for all types of fears and insecurities. What will we do without money, relatives and kids? What if I die? These fears are perpetually there, but for the one who has woken up, all these anxieties dissolve away once and for all. The one who knows that the entire creation is an illusion along with this body, what’s there to fear?

 

Why worry?

 If you are sleeping, you are in bondage. When you are awake, you are free. Sleeping akin to ignorance is pain. Wakefulness is eternal bliss. While sleeping, you are in darkness. When you wake up, you are established in the Eternal Truth. Knowing oneself as an eternally pure Self, an embodiment of bliss, where is the space left for worries and insecurities?

 

When this flower of Ananda, the eternal bliss, blooms inside, we can say that the Basant has come! Basant means blooming. The autumn of ignorance is over. Basant implies that the flowers have blossomed. The gloom of ignorance that enveloped us has left and has been taken over by the illuminance of supreme wisdom.

 

With the coming of spring, small saplings begin to make headway on the ground shrunk by the winter; the stem grows, buds come, and within weeks flowers bloom. Once the harsh winter is over, colours begin to spread all around. These are the colours of Basant, spring.

 

When the love for the Lord dawns, or the love for the Master culminates, we experience a permanent Basant! Outside, flowers will wither away with time. However, the flower of divine love that once blooms within never dies; for such a person, Basant is never over.

 

 Today is Basant Panchami

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment in hockey India beat china by 7 goals